If you excuse me, I'll go hug myself now

Sweaty Hands Edition.

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling. 

Whoa! this came as a huge surprise, I was expecting some claustrophobic horror story but it turned out to be so much more.

I´ve been chewing this one for days, it left me kind of drained and fuzzy. I guess I was in a certain dark mood already and this book resonated deep within me. I really loved what she did with the story, the alien backwater planet in an uncertain future, high tech dreadful suits, a solo expedition and a cave… what can go wrong? Predictably many things start going south and every time your thoughts go somewhere, you are led beyond, and then a bit more… till you get to a point, very unpredictably now, that the cave itself becomes an echo of a two character dance, a stage in which two broken individuals get so much more broken. 

A frantic dance, for a frantic reading: it was so hard to put the book down, eager to get my emotions completely chewed up like cheap bubblegum. It was dark, intense, painful, utterly hopeless and marvelous.

Tight dark places are something scary for me, I am really a bit claustrophobic myself, but wow! never mind that, the tight dark places of the mind… that is some good horror there.